From the course: Claude Code for Everyday Professionals: Build Productivity Tools with Plain English

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Outline a solution with context and prompts

Outline a solution with context and prompts

The O in our FORGE framework is for outlining a solution. One thing that can be extremely helpful before outlining a solution is providing Claude Code with the appropriate context on who you are, what you like, what your job title is, what you don't like, and maybe what style preferences you have. And that's something that can stay consistent across projects by building something called an MD file. MD is simply a markdown file. So it's a text-based file that Claude Code can read and apply to anything it builds before it starts building. So it just understands who you are a little bit better before it jumps in and starts working. So I'll show you a quick prompt that you can place into Claude Code to build out your MD file. Create an MD file that exists in our project folder to provide background instructions for your builds. I want the following information to be included and I'll include a copy of this in the exercise files. Who am I and what my role is. Justin Schaefer, executive…

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